Inspiratons

I stir in bed. I know it’s nearing noon, I need to rise up, but my body wants to linger a little longer under the warm sheets. I slept at around 4 this morning, all night long my left leg wouldn’t relent. Of all nights! The discomfort in my legs was more intense than usual […]

Christian Living

My husband showed me videos from his Facebook newsfeed of beloved workers in church who wrangle the rough-flowing rivers with their motorcycles going to a people on the mountains to preach the Gospel. These volunteers are not full-time workers but fathers who also hold day jobs: ambulance driver, security guard, fireman, etc. During their off […]

Testimony

Like any other testimony of God’s wonders and grace, whether a major one or of the everyday kind, this story began at the deepest end of human emotions: weariness, anger, resentment, lostness, helplessness. Of hope flying away; faith groping in the dark; heart bordering to rebellion. Against God. A body and heart that have been so […]

Life Lessons

Even as I cling to this, that to be wholly God’s is the whole meaning and purpose of life, I still intentionally pursue it with a single-minded determination through the moments of everyday. I mean, it could easily wriggle out of one’s grasp like a slippery fish. And there are moments still that it’s hard […]

Arise from the Heaps!

The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad;
let the distant shores rejoice.

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
before the Lord of all the earth.6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and all peoples see his glory. (Ps. 97: 1, 5, 6 NIV)

When you are feeling sad and low and don’t know how to proceed, when inspiration and encouragement elude you and bright hope seems to fade farther and farther away in the distance, read Psalm 97 and meditate on it. It will remind you that we have a God whose power is unsurpassed, that He does wondrous things in heaven and on earth. It will speak to you that our God, the living God, is sovereign – the Most High over all the earth; …exalted far above all gods (v. 9), and He reigns in our lives. And that He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us (Eph. 3:20 NIV).

That there is no reason to grow faint and lose faith for righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne (v. 2). And He will deliver us from whatever it is that is weighing down on us: illness, problems, sorrow, weariness, fears… these foes of ours. He will make them His own and consume them on every side (v. 3). For he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked (v. 10).

Oh friend, there’s no reason to mope and wallow in self-pity or discouragement! Arise! The heavens proclaim his righteousness (v. 6) – He will do us good! Open your spiritual eyes to see His glory! Arise! Remember all His marvellous miracles and wondrous deeds! Thank Him for His past lovingkindnesses and tender mercies and rejoice in Him. For this is His will for us. Then we will see His love moving mightily once again in our lives!

Light shines on the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart. (v. 11)

Comments

Hi Rina. I LOVE your picture!
Yesterday, a friend of mine emailed me Jeremiah 32:40-41 (NIV). Verse 41 Says “I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.”
As you say, He WILL do us good. God is so good, even when things around us look bleak, He’s still with us.

Thank you, Laura. It’s a photo of an overhanging branch of our bougainvillea. I wrote this post at a moment when I generally felt sad and weary and couldn’t think of ways to lift myself up. Then I read Psalm 97 and it spoke to me. And I was fine :).

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